by Webhost365 Engineering Team | Sep 9, 2026 | Hosting Explained, Web Hosting
To check whether a domain is available, search it at any registrar or run a WHOIS lookup. An unregistered name returns no record. If the name is taken — and with more than 400 million domains registered worldwide, most short ones are — you have five options: change...
by Webhost365 Engineering Team | Sep 9, 2026 | Hosting Explained, Web Hosting
Transferring a domain moves who manages and bills it, not where it points. So your website and email keep working, provided you copy the DNS records before you start. Four steps: unlock the domain, get the authorization code, request the transfer at the new registrar,...
by Webhost365 Engineering Team | Sep 9, 2026 | Hosting Explained, Web Hosting
An SSL certificate is a small file that proves a website is who it claims to be and enables the encrypted HTTPS connection behind the padlock. Most sites need the basic domain-validated type, which is free and renews automatically. Paid certificates add identity...
by Webhost365 Engineering Team | Sep 8, 2026 | Hosting Explained, Web Hosting
When a domain expires, the website and email stop working, but the name is not gone. Most domains pass through a renewal grace period, then a 30-day redemption period, before anyone else can register them. Renew during the grace period at the normal price. Redeem...
by Webhost365 Engineering Team | Sep 7, 2026 | Hosting Explained, Web Hosting
Website uptime monitoring is a service that loads your site from outside on a schedule and alerts you the moment it fails. Done well, it tells you the site is down minutes before a customer does. Done naively — one check, one location, email only — it misses real...
by Webhost365 Engineering Team | Sep 7, 2026 | Hosting Explained, WordPress
A 403 Forbidden means the server understood your request and refused it on purpose. The site is up, so nothing has crashed. Something simply decided you may not see this page. Five things can make that decision — the web server, WordPress or a security plugin, a CDN...
by Webhost365 Engineering Team | Sep 7, 2026 | Hosting Explained, WordPress
If your WordPress site was hacked, recover it in this order: confirm the hack is real, isolate the site and change every password, find how they got in, restore a backup from before the breach, harden the site, then clear Google’s warnings. Do not start by...
by Webhost365 Engineering Team | Sep 6, 2026 | Hosting Explained, Web Hosting
“Your connection is not private” means your browser checked the website’s SSL certificate and found a problem. Either the certificate has expired, it covers a different domain, or the browser does not trust the authority that issued it. In most cases...
by Webhost365 Engineering Team | Aug 28, 2026 | Hosting Explained, WordPress
When your site is down, work through five checks in order before you change anything. Is it down for everyone, or just you? Does it show an error, or nothing at all? What does the error say? Did the domain or DNS break? Is the server even reachable? Each check rules...
by Webhost365 Engineering Team | Aug 26, 2026 | Hosting Explained, WordPress
A 500 Internal Server Error means your website’s code ran and then failed. The server has no useful page to send back, so it returns a generic error instead. A blank white page is the same fault with error display switched off. Four causes cover almost every...
by Webhost365 Engineering Team | Aug 25, 2026 | Hosting Explained, Web Hosting
A 502 Bad Gateway means a proxy sitting in front of your website asked the server behind it for a page and got back something broken — or nothing usable at all. The proxy itself is working fine; the layer behind it is not. Four causes account for nearly every case: a...
by Webhost365 Engineering Team | Aug 25, 2026 | Hosting Explained, WordPress
“Error establishing a database connection” means WordPress cannot reach its database. Your files are almost certainly fine, your content is almost certainly fine, and what has failed is the connection between them. Four causes account for nearly every...